Windows 2008 Terminal Services RemoteApp user or group filtering

Thursday, 02 July 2009 by Michel Roth

The most wanted feature for Windows 2008 Terminal Services is RemoteApp user filtering. You don’t want all users to see all applications on the web portal. This feature will probably be released in Windows Server 2008 R2 but till then, you are out of luck. This article helps.

I am going to describe how you could publish certain application to specific users or groups via RDP files.

To control published applications you could deploy: MSI files via GPO or or simply inform end users about RDP files they need to run

MSI approach works OK in the domains but in case you do not have a domain or you do not know how to configure group policies you will have to use RDP files. Distributing RDP files to your users might be a tricky business as these change over time and it might be too complicated to make sure everyone has the latest version.

Source: http://www.terminalserviceslog.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/30/windows-2008-terminal-services-remoteapp-user-or-group-filtering-part-1/